Happy Data Hour is happening this Thursday, I just stumbled upon it and met the organizers and others. It will be a top group of fun people talking about all sorts of modern data ideas, advances and related topics. In addition, drinks are on the organizers of Keen.io and Digital Ocean. I hear that (and... Continue reading →

Over the last couple years there have been two prominent open source PaaS Solutions come onto the market. Cloud Foundry & OpenShift. There’s been a lot of talk about these plays and the talk has slowly but steadily turned into traction. Large enterprises are picking these up and giving their developers and operations staff a... Continue reading →

Recently a friend of mine and fellow coder, harkening back to my Russell Investments Enterprise Developer days posed the discussion of Redis versus Riak. Well, first off, I thought I myself needed to write down a line by line comparison. I’ve worked with both in various ways but I’d never really thought about them lined... Continue reading →